Wayne

Thanks for the post. Unfortunately, none of the links lead to the paper nor
can I google such work by the referenced scientist

Probably just me, but, can anybody help?

Thanks

Allan

On Tuesday, December 29, 2015, Tracey Baldrey <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> That's very surprising and interesting to read.  Many thanks Wayne for
> passing that on.
>
> Best wishes
> Tracey
> Netherlands
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> http://www.mcmaster.ca/research/sciencecity/globe-article_poinar.htm
> ."It's one of the biggest crap deposits known," says Vaughn Bryant, an
> anthropologist at Texas A&M University who led the excavation of the Hinds
> Cave deposit in the mid-1970s and provided Dr. Poinar with the samples.
>
> The cave, an enormous, very dry, cliff-face rock shelter, housed
> generations of hunter-gatherers for 9,000 years. The site has yielded more
> than 2,000 cow-patty-shaped human coprolites.
>
> The shape of these coprolites is due to the "astronomical" amounts of
> fibre in them, Dr. Bryant says. He estimates that the Hinds Cave
> inhabitants ate
> 15 times the daily fibre intake of present-day North Americans, mostly in
> the form of roasted desert plants, including agave and yucca.
>
> Using mitochondrial DNA analysis, Dr. Poinar showed that three coprolites
> belonged to separate individuals. And he confirmed Dr. Bryant's microscopic
> analysis of the contents: These paleo-peoples were eating well.
>
> Through genetic reconstruction, he showed that in the 24 to 48 hours
> before relieving himself at the back of the shelter, one Hinds Cave
> resident had eaten a veritable Thanksgiving feast. The coprolite included
> evidence of pronghorn antelope, cottontail rabbit, packrat, squirrel and
> eight types of wild plants. ....
>
> How exceptional is that site? Were other paleolithics eating less fibre
> than we do and less that one-tenth or one-fifteenth of that of the people
> of this site? Not likely. More likely is that the paleolithic diet
> generally contained multiple times the amount of fibre that ours does.
>
> How does the above compare to 150 mg per day? There following article
> suggests up to 300 g per day (yes, grams, not miligrams):
> https://www.paleohacks.com/fiber/paleolithic-fiber-consumption-989
> (Sorry if the latter artricle was already part of this thread, or one of
> your sources.)
>
> Wayne Wynn
> Burnaby, BC
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